Money symbol

The symbols used by China to write RMB are:? .

"?" The symbol ""means "yuan" in Chinese characters, and its pronunciation is yuá n, so when writing RMB in use, if the symbol ""is added before the amount, there is no need to add the word "yuan" after the amount.

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1 955 March1day, the People's Bank of China officially confirmed the symbol of RMB for the first time when it issued the second set of RMB. Because the unit of RMB is Yuan and Yuan's Chinese phonetic alphabet is yuán, the symbol of RMB adopts the first letter Y of Yuan's Chinese phonetic alphabet.

In order to distinguish "Y" from Arabic numerals, two lines are added to the word "Y" and written as "?" The pronunciation is still "yuan". From then on, people began to use "?" The symbol represents RMB, which is used as the symbol of the head when writing the digital amount, such as RMB 100. 100 "or RMB 100".

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